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**Brink** · 30 May 2007

How to Customize the Send To Context Menu in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8

Information

This tutorial will show you how to add or delete shortcuts from the "Send To" context menu in Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.

The items for the Send To context menu are located in the hidden system folder below.

C:\Users\(user-name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

Tip

To remove or show drive letters in the Send To context menu, see: How to Remove or Show Drive Letters in the Vista and Windows 7 Send To Context Menu . Drives in the Send To menu can cause it to open slowly or hang for a bit if the hard drives have to spin up first before accessing them.

EXAMPLE: Send To Context Menu with added Notepad

Here's How:

1. Do step 2 or 3 below for how you would like to open the SendTo folder.

2. Open a Windows Explorer window, navigate to the hidden system folder below, and go to step 4 below.

C:\Users\(user-name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

3. Press the Windows + R keys to open the Run dialog, type shell:sendto, press Enter, and go to step 4 below.

4. Add or Delete any drive, folder, or application shortcut you like that uses the Open With option for the Send To window below.

NOTE: For example: Notepad, Paint, Photo Gallery, dvd drive, any folder, etc. For a drive, right click on the drive in Computer and click Create Shortcut for it to placed on the desktop, then move the shortcut to here.

That's it,
Shawn

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**Brink** · 22 Nov 2007

Updated 11-22-2007 to include the restore default Send To items.

Shawn

**jedinight2002** · 04 Apr 2008

I have checked both my Sent To folders and they do not contain any references to my mapped network drives, however all mapped network drives are appearing in the Send To list.

This means if I accidentally hover over the Send To menu so that it expands, Vista
interrogates all the network drives which means spinning up all 8 disks in my NAS whcih takes about 30-45 seconds - VERY ANNOYING.

Any ideas how I can stop this?

Here is a really useful application I have come across that allows you to customise the Send To menu, including adding useful options such as being able to send to the Quick Launch menu.

And its FREE!

:: gabrieleponti.com ::

**Brink** · 04 Apr 2008

Hi Jedinight2002,

I suppose that you could remove the ones that you do not plan on using Send To with from the Send To folder.

That's a nice free program you ran across. I wish it had some more options though on what it can add.

Shawn

**jedinight2002** · 05 Apr 2008

Originally Posted by Brink

Hi Jedinight2002,
I suppose that you could remove the ones that you do not plan on using Send To with from the Send To folder.

Sorry Shawn, I don't understand what you are suggesting.

The options in the Send To Menu are not the same as the icons in the send to folder. See attached:

**Brink** · 05 Apr 2008

Originally Posted by jedinight2002

Originally Posted by Brink

Hi Jedinight2002,
I suppose that you could remove the ones that you do not plan on using Send To with from the Send To folder.

Sorry Shawn, I don't understand what you are suggesting.

The options in the Send To Menu are not the same as the icons in the send to folder. See attached:

Sorry Jedinight,

This will show you how to remove the drive letters from the Send To context menu.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/14...e-letters.html

Shawn

**dereklio** · 23 Feb 2009

Hi, I have followed your tutorial, but the shortcut I have created in the sendto folder still doesn't appear in the context menu. here is what I did.

1. open the run dialog, and type in shell:sendto, and hit enter. (send to folder appears)
2. and as in xp, i right click on the window and bring up the context menu, click "new" and then "shortcut"
3. then I have located an exe (I have tried a folder as well), and finish creating the shortcut.

now, i go back to my desktop and pick any file, the shortcut i have just created still does not appear on the send to context menu. any idea?

is there still any windows policy which may have an effect?

**Brink** · 23 Feb 2009

Hello Dereklio, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Did you put the shortcut into the Send To window? You can only use a location (ex: folder) to add to the Send To menu, or a shortcut of an exe file that uses Open With (ex: Notepad).

Hope this helps,
Shawn

**dereklio** · 04 Mar 2009

thank you very much for your reply. yes, i did trying both.
i right click on the send to windows and use new --> shortcut to create the shortcut. I created the shortcut to Notepad.exe. and then I double click on the shortcut within the send to explorer windows and it does bring up Notepad.

I followed the same procedure in winxp and it works fine, the shortcut appears immediately in the context menu, but with my vista installation, it doesn't work as expected. so i wonder if there is any further setting in vista that can prevent it from happening?

**Brink** · 04 Mar 2009

Dereklio,

What file are you trying to add to the Send To menu?

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